The self-effacing translator worked with the “My Brilliant Friend” author again for her latest book, “The Lying Life of Adults.”
Tag: Language and Languages
In Argentina, a Bid to Make Language Gender Neutral Gains Traction
A movement to make Spanish grammar less centered on male terms has gained broad adherence, including from President Alberto Fernández.
500 Years Ago, This Port Linked East to West. Its Fate Was to Fade Away.
Malacca gave birth to the notion of Asian Fusion centuries before it became a culinary trope. Its decline speaks to the promise and perils of globalization.
Northern Ireland Breaks a Three-Year Political Stalemate
The pressure of an impending Brexit pushed the warring parties into a deal that restores the power sharing government. But can they work together effectively?
Does Influencer Grammar Matter?
In Southeast Asia, watchdog accounts call out misspelled and otherwise muddled English-language captions.
As Putin Pushes a Merger, Belarus Resists With Language, Culture and History
With President Vladimir Putin of Russia looking to accelerate moves toward a “union state,” Belarusians are promoting a stronger sense of their own national identity.
The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
From a Tibetan Filmmaker, an Unvarnished View of His Land
Pema Tseden’s portraits of Tibet are not the heavenly, mist-shrouded Himalayan paradise of popular Western imagination, but an unsentimental view of a windswept plateau on the fringes of modernity.
In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive
Before cellphones, Turkish “bird language” allowed farmers to communicate across long distances in the Pontic Mountains.
‘Gender Star’ Stirs Linguistic Conservatives to Battle in Germany
A group of prominent Germans signed a letter expressing outrage at the use of gender-neutral language. But their fight may already be lost.